A video or basketball player sinking a shot from a helicopter is going viral on YouTube. The 192ft shot is being claimed as a new world record for the longest shot from a helicopter. In the clip, the helicopter can be seen hovering over the net before successfully attempting the shot.

An American Doctor Who fan has taken to dressing his 2-year old daughter up in miniature versions of each of the 11 Doctor's outfits. Proud father Ryan Dewalt and his wife started dressing their daughter Valentine in perfect mini recreations of Doctor Who outfits from the age of 13 months. Ryan said: "She enjoys dressing up. Costumes, tutus, you name it. She'll go to her costumes and pull out outfits to put on." Other costumes include Captain Jack Harkness and River Song.

Sex-deprived male fruit flies are more likely to drink alcohol to excess than those who’ve had sex, new research finds. And it seems that a tiny molecule in the fly’s brain – known as neuropeptide F – is responsible for the behaviour, according to the study by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco. According to a study published Thursday in http://www.sciencemag.org/Science MagazineEND, as the levels of this neuropeptide change in the brain so does the fly’s behaviour – with lower levels of it causing increased drinking. This neuropeptide in the fruit fly’s brain is similar to a human molecule called neuropeptide Y. Researchers hypothesize that this neuropeptide Y may play a similar role in people – connecting social triggers like sex or the lack of sex to behaviours such as excessive drinking and drug abuse.

A five-legged bull frog’s extra appendage has saved him from the cooking pot in China, after a chef spotted the amphibian’s weird protrusion. The oily black leg, which stuck out at an angle from the bull frog's body, wasn’t spotted by his first owner, as he was part of a wholesale batch crammed together at a local food market. Eating frogs is common in China, and frog leg soup is considered to strengthen one’s bones. However now the unusual looking frog has been handed into a zoo in Zhuzhou China.

Two schoolgirls committed suicide in an attempt to travel through time, possibly inspired by popular TV shows, according to state-owned newspaper China Daily. The case brings the issue of time travel-centered television shows back into the spotlight in China, which recently implemented a ban on these types of shows during primetime hours, between 7 and 9 p.m., according to the paper. China Daily reported that the girls, both fifth-graders at East China's Fujian province, drowned themselves in a pool, and left behind a suicide note that suggests they were hoping to become time travelers after death. One of the girls allegedly wrote that she had dreams of traveling back to the Qing Dynasty, and of visiting outer space. The other may have had another motive: She was worried about telling her parents that she had lost the remote control to the garage at their home, the paper reported.

That’s 71,581 feet, in case you’re wondering. And by the way, his successful jump on Thursday was only a test run — Felix Baumgartner wants to jump 23 miles this summer, which would break the record (and hopefully, not other things) set in 1960 of 19.5 miles. It was quite a production: Baumgartner, from Austria, lifted off from Roswell, New Mexico, inside a pressurized capsule which was being lifted by a 100-foot helium balloon. Jules Verne approves.